Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant Reunite For Upcoming Show 'The Palace'

The makers of Succession, one of the most popular running shows currently, are coming up with a new show titled The Palace starring Kate Winslet. Winslet will also serve as the show’s executive producer, which is about an authoritarian regime. In a recent development around casting, the producers have brought British actor Hugh Grant to join the show for a prominent appearance. This will be the second time Winslet and Grant appear together on screen after a gap of two decades.

The Palace will bring Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant together in one frame after 27 years since they starred opposite each other in the 1995 acclaimed film Sense and Sensibility. While Winslet last starred in the award-winning Mare of Easttown, Grant played a prominent role in Hotstar's The Undoing.

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Kate Winslet In The Palace

The Palace will be telecasted on HBO. Will Tracy and Frank Rich from Succession and  Stephen Frears of The Queen fame are coming together for the show which will be presented as a limited drama series. While Tracy serves as the writer for the show, Frears will be directing it and serve as an executive producer as well. The series will explore a story spanning one year of an authoritarian regime.

The series will date back to a regime in which Winslet will be presented in a never seen avatar. The actor who also serves as the executive producer of the show has been involved in the making right from scratch, as per reports.

With the production going on floors, some great developments in the casting are currently taking place, one of the many being bringing Hugh Grant on board. It will be interesting to watch Grant and Winslet share screen space as they were last seen together 27 years back in an entirely different genre, the Jane Austen adaption of Sense and Sensibility.

The series also features British actor Andrea Riseborough of The Grudge and Possessor fame and Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts. The Palace will be Kate Winslet’s fourth series with HBO. The actor won an Emmy for her brilliant performance in her last limited series Mare of Easttown.